Battery life Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

10.6 falsely reports 'service battery?' ... I think not

by Josh Carr (Sep 24th, 2009)

Over the last couple weeks, I've been going back and forth with readers who truly believe that Snow Leopard is reporting battery errors when they have a perfectly good battery. There's even a substantially large thread in Apple's Discussions forums about this topic. I've been notified of that thread ...

Singing the iPhone battery blues

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 7th, 2009)

"My iPhone's been draining awfully fast since I installed 3.0," I commented to a fellow TUAW blogger just a few days after the release of the iPhone 3.0 firmware. At first, I wanted to think it was my phone. But, my iPhone 3G wasn't even 90 days old at the time of the observation and I'd been able ...

Ask TUAW: Recovering pictures, updating Facebook, iPhone battery life and more

by Chris Ullrich (Feb 25th, 2009)

Once again, it's time for another edition of Ask TUAW: the place where we try to answer all of your Mac and Apple-related questions. This week we're taking questions about recovering pictures from corrupted compact flash cards, Twitter for the iPhone, extending iPhone battery life and more. As ...

TUAW Tips: Maximize battery power for GPS apps

by Steven Sande (Feb 17th, 2009)

You know from reading a lot of my earlier posts that I am a real fan of iPhone GPS apps. I regularly use RunKeeper, TrailGuru, and Geocaching to keep track of my wanderings or find geocaches, but I've found that those apps usually suck my iPhone batteries dry very quickly. Jason at FitnessKeeper let ...

Wanted: An iPhone power miser app

by Steven Sande (Aug 28th, 2008)

While Guy Kawasaki might be able to get 36 hours of standby life out of his iPhone 3G, many of the rest of us are struggling with having enough power to make it through a day. Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine in Seattle, came up with a great idea for any iPhone developers in the TUAW audience. He'd ...

iPhone 3G extended battery options

by Steven Sande (Jul 17th, 2008)

Fellow propeller-head and all-around nice guy Joel Evans over at Geek.com let me know that they had published a short post about a couple of iPhone 3G extended battery options. Since the 3G has a tendency to suck battery power like a vacuum powered by a Pratt & Whitney PW-4000 jet engine, ...

Speculation about MacBook Pro battery life

by Jan Kabili (Jan 13th, 2006)

There's lots of speculation about why Apple hasn't revealed expected battery life for the new MacBook Pro. The Apple site doesn't offer any specifics on battery life. The specs simply state that the MacBook Pro has a 60-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery (with integrated charge indicator LEDs), and ...